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The topic of the day: Sold for stupid? The Black Friday Trap
Insanely cheap? Or just crazy? What once started in the US as a family tradition, on the Friday after Thanksgiving all together through the shops, has mutated to the global discount battle. Especially online retailers outdo each other with their actions - and people click and buy.
It is behind the supposed bargain often a worse business, as we suspect buyers. With brands, colors and presumed time pressure, the retailers head for our unconscious. The problem: the more complicated the deal, the sooner our rational brain will surrender. We become impulsive - and buy. Consumer psychologist Gareth Harvey explains what tricks turn off our ratio - and how we can arm our impulse-driven brains.
A tip from the expert, who always applies: If you want to save, you should pay in cash if possible. Because to hold a credit card on the reader or pay virtually, does not hurt - give bills out of hand, all right.
Who still wants to plunge into the online rebate battle, may heed the tips of my colleague Matthias Kremp. He explains which portals help distinguish false bargains from real ones, and why Apple's products could be worth looking out for. He also reveals how you can relax your shopping trip and finish with a clear conscience. The tips for online bargain hunting.
Incidentally, Black Friday has nothing to do with the Black Friday of the stock market crash of 1929. The fateful day of Wall Street was a Thursday and is usually called "Black Thursday" - in Europe, however, had already begun because of the time lag, the eponymous Friday.
The number of the day: 43
On average, families in Munich spend about 43 percent of their income on housing. In cities with particularly high rents, the proportion of families is declining: in Munich, Freiburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart, for example, more families are leaving than they are at home. This was the result of a study by the economic research institute Prognos on behalf of ZDF.
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Soon no longer allowed: demonstrators with Hezbollah flags
- German government plans Hezbollah ban: According to SPIEGEL information, the Federal Foreign Office as well as the Justice and Home Affairs ministers agreed to an operating ban on the Lebanese terrorist militia in Germany.
- European Parliament calls for "climate emergency" : The MEPs in Strasbourg had passed a majority resolution. Above all, the decision has a symbolic character.
- US Congress vote-buying : Researchers have demonstrated how US business stakeholders are influencing concise decisions with donations.
- Germans misjudge risks due to radiation: Most Germans consider radiation from cell phones or nuclear power plants to be disturbing, according to a survey. However, many misjudge the greatest radiation hazard: radon.
Opinion: The most discussed comments, interviews, essays
The Chinese century as a threat: China is transformed into a digital dictatorship, which controls the behavior of citizens based on measured values. Our columnist Sascha Lobo says: It's about more than Huawei and 5G, because with its social design, the Middle Kingdom also shapes the rest of the world. The column.
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Save the quitter! Young people should be a nonprofit after school for a year, demands CDU party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. Harald Schmidt does not believe that such a service kittet society. The video column.
Stories: The most read texts at SPIEGEL +
Cigarettes, the underestimated ecological hazard: Two-thirds of cigarette filters are thrown somewhere, poisoning animals and plants. Now cities like Hamburg, Cologne or Munich fight back. What to do?
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Around 4.5 trillion cigarette butts end up in trash every year - at least not immediately
How a house in Brandenburg came to the very thick Internet line: In Fürstenberg on the Havel, the former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg builds a data center on. What is he doing?
Fear of money: The central banks print money as if there is no tomorrow, the savings do not bring interest, and the economy threatens to collapse. Our author Armin Mahler says: good times for doomsday prophets. Is it really the biggest crash of all time?
My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday
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Jennifer Lopez: "This whole country is a strip club"
What you could watch this evening: The movie starts the true crime drama "Hustler". The only thing that counts for the men is what they have in their pants: credit cards. After true events, the film tells of strippers who except bankers.
Director Scafaria Lopez treats the setting not as an amoral emergency, but as an economy in its own right before the onset of the great economic crisis of 2008. In an environment where women are reduced to their bodies, the film reduces men to their money. My colleague Till Kadritzke says: Also thanks to performances by stars like Jennifer Lopez, he delivers a nice piece of pop feminism.
Or you look football : In the penultimate group match of the Europa League Bundesliga leaders Borussia Mönchengladbach joins the Austrian Wolfsberger AC. A victory for Borussia could give them a premature place in the last 32 contests - namely when group opponents AS Roma lose against Basaksehir FK. You can watch the game at 6.55 pm for a fee on DAZN and in the live ticker on SPIEGEL ONLINE.
I wish you a nice finishing time.
warmly
Isabella Reichert from the Daily Team
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